MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- An employee of the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System is still getting paid even though he has been accused of first-degree sexual abuse of a patient, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.

The Advertiser reports that Andre Hall, 40, of Montgomery is accused of fondling a female patient's breasts against her will, some time in December 2013.

Hall has pleaded not guilty in Macon County District Court. The Advertiser reports that Hall will only be tried if a grand jury indicts, and that the grand jury won't meet again until early 2015.

Hall, on leave from the VA, worked in prosthetics at the Tuskegee medical center campus, the Advertiser reports.

The woes of Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System have caused major headlines since shoddy patient care for veterans became a major embarrassment for the Obama administration earlier this year.

Following that drug-related disclosure, and following weeks of other embarrassing reports, including reports that at least 900 X-rays were lost, Central Alabama VA Director James Talton and Dr. Cliff Robinson, chief of staff, were placed on administrative leave last Thursday.